we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
Hardcore leftist, of the libertarian variety. Anarchist sympathies but not technically an anarchist.
what would you say makes you not “technically” an anarchist? or alternatively: what disagreements do you feel you have with contemporary anarchism that make you hesitant to embrace the label?
I do technically believe in a state, just as small a state as can be achieved while still accomplishing its job (namely, keeping people from dying by supporting them in whatever way they need).
your mileage may vary since it’s a term typically associated with right-libertarianism, but what you’re describing seems like a good label fit for minarchism/the night-watchman state.
Yeah, that’s not a totally wrong label, but I’ve avoided it for the exact reason you stated.